Week 3

A Four Corners Day

Guidelines

Start off your comments with "As a..." or
"Based on my experiences..."

"The introduction of computers into schools... improve academic achievement and alter how teachers [teach]."

- Larry Cuban

"Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't have a specific piece of software for the job."

- Seymour Papert

"Teaching in the Internet age means we must teach tomorrow's skills today."

- Jennifer Fleming

"The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed."

- William Gibson

"One thing that's been interesting... to watch is that people that say facts are facts — they're not really facts. Everybody has a way — it's kind of like looking at ratings or looking at a glass of half-full water. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth or not true. There's no such thing, unfortunately anymore, of facts."

- Scottie Nell Hughes

"In the tech sector, we imagined that... [we] would bring people together for a healthier democracy. We hung onto this belief even as we saw that this wasn’t playing out. We built the structures for hate to flow along the same pathways as knowledge...."

- dana boyd

Your Blogging Assignment

• Choose a prompt and write about why you took the position you did.
• Identify one or more experiences that you had or a value that was taught to you by your family, friends or teachers that led you to take that position.
• If you changed your position, please explain why. If you did not change your position, please explain why.